Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — The Colored Camp Meeting. [ARTICLE]

The Colored Camp Meeting.

The, so-called, Colored Camp Meeting, now in progress at the Fair Grounds in Rensselaer, consists simply of a baud of fifteen or 20 colored people. Their preaching is bt a quality neither very good nor very bad, but their singing, though odd and unusual, is really excellent, rind by far the inost attractive feature of the ineetings. The attendance, last Sunday, was very great, being, as we should judge, not less than 1000 persons during the entire day. The week day evening meetings are also, some of them, quite largely attended. This (Thursday) evening, as we are informed, the G. A. R. Post hate accepted an invitation to attend in a body. Friday evening the parable of the Ten Virgins will be represented, and expounded. On Sunday, the great attraction will be the Prodigal son find eating the Fatted calf.